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THE MONEY ISSUE - 3/4/2007
First Sunday has always aimed to write about what matters, and with this in mind, here comes the Money Issue. We can try to deny it, but money dictates much of our lives. Where we live. What we do. Our work. How we spend our free time. Our future. Our present. It's so much a part of our existence, we take it for granted. It's just a given. Money matters. |
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What We Do for Money - 3/4/2007
There are lots of famous quotes about money, but the writer/poet/critic Samuel Johnson may have said it best: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." |
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'Both Sides Now' Hits Home - 3/4/2007
I wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoyed your Feb. 4 articles ("Both Sides Now: The Buffalo Experience at 25 and 50"). I got such a kick out of both sides and adored hearing about my children's generation. Jessica Zwieg gave me hope as I read her tell about her lack of cooking prowess. Perhaps someday my own daughter will desire to know more than the local take-out phone numbers. |
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Western New York's Middle-class Royalty - 3/4/2007
Judith Primeau and her husband, Daniel, are living a life of luxury - on a middle-class income. The Primeaus live in Clarence and enjoy going out to shows, to movies, or to dinner whenever they can. They appreciate what Judith calls the varied opportunities for fun and entertainment in Buffalo, ranging from live music to Broadway shows at Shea's Performing Arts Center. |
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East Amherst 14051 - 3/4/2007
Beverly Hills 90210 it's not. But East Amherst 14051 is the region's wealthiest ZIP code, so to speak, with a median household income of $88,317. That's the largest of any local ZIP and more than double what the median is countywide. |
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Opulence and Excess, a la Western New York - 3/4/2007
Buffalo on $1 million a day. Impossible, you say. No one can spend that much dough. Not in one day. Not in this low-rent 'burg. Think again. |
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Best Buys - 3/4/2007
If you've ever lived somewhere other than Western New York, especially in a large metropolitan area, one of your fondest memories of Buffalo is probably how little it costs to have a great life. |
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Buffalo's Most Expensive Dinner - 3/4/2007
There I was, sitting at the leather-trimmed bar at O'Connell's Hourglass, waiting for an evening of gilded gluttony. My quest: Find the most expensive meal in Western New York. And answer this elusive question: Is it worth it? |
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Headliners - 3/4/2007
Appetizers Chilled seafood deluxe, $75, the Western Door at Seneca Niagara Casino Cold seafood cocktail, $55, O'Connell's Hourglass Seafood cocktail (for two), $26, Buffalo Chophouse |
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The Buffalo Niagara Money Game - 3/4/2007
My old college roommate, Jeff, is living on Easy Street. More than 15 years ago, he and his wife bought a Cape Cod in the San Francisco suburbs. They sold their 1,800-square-foot house for more than $1 million a couple of years ago, when the San Francisco real estate market was still red hot. They bought a new one in Seattle for $600,000 and still had enough profit left over to pay for most of their two young teens' college education. |
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A Life on Minimum Wage - 3/4/2007
Q. It's 2007, and the New York State minimum wage has gone up to $7.15 an hour. Whoo-hoo, we're rich. Can a full-time working stiff really live on that much in Erie County? |
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Hey, Big Spender - 3/4/2007
Think you need to shuffle off to Toronto, New York or L.A. for a fabulous outfit? Think again. If you've got the money, honey, there are plenty of stores 'round here who've got the time - with a growing list of designer pieces to drape you from head to toe. |
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My World, and Welcome to It - 2/4/2007
It used to be called the Generation Gap, the seemingly irreconcilable difference in sensibilities between the young and old. Now, it's just a gap of perspectives and priorities, and how to spend a weekend night. But does it have to be that way? |
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'Life in Buffalo is, as my friends would put it, pristine. It's perfect.' - 2/4/2007
I am 25 years old. I have a job, but not a career. I live in Buffalo because I want to. And I know I love this city more than you. I am a post-millennium "young person" whose close friends live two blocks away. I live in a huge apartment that I adore and pay surprisingly little rent, and I see this city differently than the older people I've come to know. |
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'How does it feel to be 50 among the young and firm, the strong and smooth on Elmwood, on Chippewa, at the Boulevard Mall?' - 2/4/2007
On my latest birthday a couple of months ago, even my mother said, "You're fifty? Good god." Maybe that's a response inspired by the fact that I still act with less maturity than she somehow expects? Or it could be her epiphany that if I'm 50, she must be old as the vampire Lestat. |
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Head Over Heels - 2/4/2007
Some dismiss it as a "Hallmark Holiday." Others can't get enough pink hearts and lace. For the rest of us, Valentine's Day offers one surefire opportunity - a midwinter excuse to throw aside the turtleneck and boots in favor of something fun and flirty. |
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PERSONAL ESSENTIALS - 2/4/2007
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. Or anything by Tom Robbins. • MOVIE: "Goonies," "America Pie," "Road Trip," "Home Alone," "The Big Lebowski. |
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Johnathan M. Holifield - 2/4/2007
As chief executive officer of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Johnathan M. Holifield had been here only four months when the October ice storm struck. And characteristically, he's taking the tree tragedy head on, just like he did when he made the West Virgina University football team as a walk-on. With a background in economic and community development, this 42-year-old Detroit native has hit the ground running. |
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KEEPER OF THE COMEDY FLAME - 2/4/2007
Scott Rubin isn't the first guy to have a big idea while watching late-night TV. For most of us, those wee-hours epiphanies have all the staying power of an infomercial gemstone ordered at 4 a.m., but it's a little different for Rubin. The 47-year-old Buffalo native is the editor-in-chief of National Lampoon. And his idea has catapulted the current incarnation of the legendary magazine back to the forefront of American humor. |
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If You Don't Read This Story, We'll Kill This Writer - 2/4/2007
"Let not the sands of time get in your lunch." - "Deteriorata," National Lampoon Radio Hour, 1972 "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy. |
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